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ABOUT THE AUTHOR-Jack Wilkinson has specialized In covering co/lege sports for the New York Da i ly News lor the pas t 74 years. The former Hofstra University quarterback worked for Newsdayduflng his col/ege days. Then , upon graduation, he joined the sports staff ofthe Miami News. Pflorto assumll1g his present position he was with th'e Chicago Da i Iy News

winter weekends where it's warm, It has n ot always been like this; this

spending Christmas week in Miami, lying on the beach during the afternoons, walk­ing by the strip of hotels and nightcl~bs along Collin s Avenue on Miami Beach at night . It has not always been like this; these crowd s in excess of 100,000 in the Rose Bowl, these thousands of people who cram the boulevards to see bowl parades, th ese millions of people who overdose on television football during Christmas week, and these thousands and thousan ds of dollars which teams get for vacationing in Memphis and, inciden­tally, for playing a football game.

No, it has n ot always been like this. Go back to Jan. 1, 1916, when the Rose Bowl, the granddaddy of 'em all as it is called, had its most basic beginnings. For the previous couple of years, the Tournament of Roses Committee had been com­memorating the newyearwith an ancient athletic spectacle: chariot races. But this celebration would be different.

This celebration would feature a foot­ball game, with an Eastern represen­tative-Brown-playing the Far West representative. Anc:;l. who will ever forget Washingto n State's 14-0 victory?

Most likely, a lot of people. But not Wil­liam "Lone Star" Dietz, who coached that Washingto n State team. Not the 8,000 spectators who watched his team, while sitting in t h e pouring rain. Not the Tour­nament of Roses Committee, which took its own bath-a loss of $11 ,000 in the switch from chariot wheels to football cleats. The committee, of course, would try and try again, and eventually succeed, again and again.

There are no longer Rose Bowl crowds of 8,000. Now, thousands more will leave their farms in southern Ohio or their fac­tories further north to drive, or bus, or train, or fly to California to watch a Big Ten coach pose with Mickey Mduse in Disney­land and watch their Big Ten representa­tive battle with the best ofthe Pac-8 in the Rose Bow l.

'There are no longer tiny stadia with splintering, wooden bleachers. Rather, these games are contested in giant arenas, like the Su gar Bowl, now played in space­age, Superdomed splendor. The Liberty Bowi has fo und a very comfortable home in Memphis.

Liberty memories of Oregon State and Terry Baker, and Villanova and Billy Joe, arid a couple of thousand would-be es­kimos absolutely freezing their whiskers off in Ph ilad elphia's Municipal Stadium are just that : memories . Thankfully, gone also are gh osts of Gotham Bowls past, when a couple of hundred people who

had faller.t asleep in the bleachers in Yan­kee Stadium during the Wbrld Se ries awoke two months later to watch this foolhardy athlete, George Mira, who had left the tropical pleasures of the University of Miami campus for thefrozen tundra of the Bronx, furiously flinging passes over, under, around, and through the Nebraska defense .

No, bowls usually are now played where it is WARM. Bowls are also now played where, alway s, there is MONEY. Bowl committees do not lose $11,000 anymore; even in a monsoon. And the

. schools themselves, which send the teams, almost always make money. That is certainly true for the four major bowls: Rose, Orange, Sugar, and Cotton.

There will be no recurrences of last decade, when LSU went to the Orange Bowl one year and actually LOST money. Then, the major bowls, all played on New Year's Day, guaranteed each teamapprox­imately $200,000 . But that was before costs. And when LSU received the bill for flying its marching band down to Miami, there was no profit.

In recent years, with the influx oftelevi­sion money, bowls have paid up to $1.8 million to the two teams involved. It is hard; ho, impossible, to be unaffected by such big money. No one is immune to it. For instance, it had been 45 years since the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame had made their only bowl appearance ever. Forty -five years since the Four Horse­men-Crowley, Miller, Stuhldreher, and Layden-had ridden out of the tiny school in South Bend, and into California for the 1925 Rose Bowl.

But on Jan. 1, 1970, the Four Horsemen would ride again, this time in the persons of Ara Parseghian, his nimble little quar­terback, Joe Theismann, and the rest of the Irish. That year, Notre Dame's Cotton Bowl take was destined for funding a minority scholarship program at the uni­versity. The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, the school president, had been very active in the fight for civil rights, having chaired the President's Civil Rights Commission.

Consequently, Notre Dame returned to the bowl scene-and lost a thrilling game, 21-17, to Texas . That set the stage for a rematch the following year. This time, it was the Irish up, 24-11, with Parseghian's innovative "mirror defense " breaking Texas' Wishbone attack.

Since then, Notre Dame h as been to the Orange Bowl twiCe, the Sugar Bowl once, and spent last Christmas in Jacksonville for the Gator Bowl. There , the Irish downed Penn State in a game which served both coaches in similar w ays: they pictured the trip and game as 1) a reward

to their players, particularly their seniors, and 2 ) as a preview of, and m eans to p re­pare for, this season.

Then, too, there is another function of bowls-and another aspect of bowl fever: the possibility of being No. 1.

That distinc tion belonged to Notre Dame after it s incredible 24-23 victory over Alabama three seasons ago in the Sugar Bowl. That win, in a matchup of unbeatens, made the three remaining bowls the,next day,somewhat anticlimac­tic. But the next two years showed what the ultimate possibilitie s of bowl fever can be all about.

You had 9-1-1 Southern Cal squeaking by unbeaten , No . 1 Ohio State, on a last­minute tou,chdown and two-point con­version p ass, 18-17, in the Rose Bowl. That night, the ultimate drama came in Miami: undefeated Alabama, now the logical choice as national champion, against twice-beaten Notre Dame. This w as Ara's last game under the Golden Dome, and this was less than a month after USC 's second-h alf annihilation of the Irish in the Los Angeles Coliseum. But this night belonged to Notre Dame, 13-11, and sub­sequently, No . 1 belonged to a longshot : 10-1-1 USC .

The next year? Very similar. Again, an undefeated, top-ranke d Ohio State team was upset in the Rose Bowl. Humbled, in fact , by a UCLA team which the Buckeyes had destroyed during the regular season.

When that result was announced in the Orange Bowl, while Oklahoma quarter ­back Steve Davis (an ordained minister) was standing at a microphone at midfield and giving the invocation, some 80,000 people w e nt absolutely bananas . The Sooners, some of whom had been w atch­ing the Rose Bowl on a portable television set in the tunnel outside their locker room, now knew this: the national cham­pionship, for which they had been inel­igible the past two seasons while compil­ing a 31-1-1 record, wo uld now be theirs if they defeated Michigan . Three hours and a 14-7 victory later, it was.

Bowls will continue to serve this pur­pose, until a separate n ational champion­ship tournament format is ' established. One, however, which would likely incor­porate the bowls as they are now.

For some of you, bowl participation (and anticipation) is familiar, even taken for granted. But boring? Never.

Certainly not in Alab ama. There, foot­ball is a virtual way of life. So are bowl games, which are, in effect, the unlisted but understood 12th game on every Crim­son Tide schedule.

It all began when Alabama went to Philadelphia in 1959 to play Penn State in

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CLARK SHAUGHNESSY

BROUGHT BACK

C lark Daniel Shaughnessy and the T formation aren't exactly tough acts to follow. College football

has been doing it for years and years . . . and with great success.

Shaughnessy is credited with revolu­tionizing the game, highlighted by his rags to riches story at Stanford in 1940. That was the season he remodeled the old formation and motored through an undefeated campaign, capped by a vic­tory over Nebraska in the Rose Bowl.

Ironically, as much as Shaughnessy is associated with his fame at Stanford, his stay on The Farm lasted just two seasons. Both his arrival and departure were surprising to die-hard alumni.

BlJt Shaughnessy, who passed away in 1970 at the age of 78, later became known as a man in motion in the coaching fraternity. His affiliations are spread throughout the country .. . just as his impact of the T is tod,ay.

One of three sons, Shaughnessy was born in St. Cloud, Mn., March 6, 1892. His father was a school teacher who migrated from Pennsylvania; his mother was a Canadian.

Shaughnessy entered the University of Minnesota in 1909, working his way through school by waiting on tables, washing dishes and selling newspapers.

He went out for the Gophers ' football team, but spent his freshman year dis­consolately wandering up and down the sidelines waiting for someone to notice him. He vowed at that time that should he ever coach, every boy who wanted to play was going to get atten­tion .

Shaughnessy eventually did play at Minnesota, spotted at tackle, end and halfback, and wound up as an All-Big Ten fullback in 1913. He began coaching the very next season as assistant to Dr. Henry Williams at Minnesota.

In 1915, Shaughnessy became head coach at Tulane in New Orleans, where he later married Mae Hamilton, a school teacher. They had a son and two daughters.

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Clark Shaughnessy, the coaching fraterni­ty's man in motion.

Shaughnessy's best season at Tulane was in 1925, when the Green Wave won nine games and tied one . The team was invited to the Rose Bowl, but college au­thorities refused the bid. Shaughnessy was to wait 15 years-when his Stan­ford Wow Boys beat Nebraska-before he got another chance at the post­season classic.

After 1926, he left Tulane with a rec­ord of 58 wins, 27 defeats and 6 ties, for neighborhood rival Loyola of the South. Loyola, a small school, had to compete with bigger Tulane for attendance, and as a result , became a pioneer of night football.

While at Loyola, Shaughnessy con­ceived the idea of a game to counter the Rose Bowl and brought Loyola of Chicago to New Orleans in. the forerun-

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ner of the Sugar Bowl series. His record at Loyola of the South was 37 wins, 19 losses and 5 ties.

Shaughnessy moved on to replace re­tired Amos Alonzo Stagg as coach at the University of Chicago where the rebirth of the T formation was to take place. As the Maroons' leader from 1933 to 1939, Shaughnessy developed a close friend­ship with George Halas, owner-coach of the National Football League's Chicago Bears.

Shaughnessy and Halas would often meet and swap ideas. Together they worked out the deceptive spI'eads, man-in-motion maneuvers and quick opening plays that characterize the modern T.

Shaughnessy was the first to say the T was really the oldest formation in football. "That would make me as old as Methuselah," he said in denials of its invention.

What he did was simply to rejuvenate it, dust it off and counter-attack the single and double wing maneuvers. The explosion followed around the country . . . after Shaughnessy's initial success at Stanford which earned him national Coach of the Year recognition. In 1941, 50% of the college teams had adopted the T, and in 1942 the converts were in the 85-90% range.

Shaughnessy was appointed Stan­ford's head coach ori Jan. 11, 1940, after Chicago decided to abandon the game. His record at Chicago was 17-35-3, hardly overpowering credentials when he went looking for a coaching job at the NCAA's winter convention in Los Angeles .

Stanford, which had won only one game in 1939 under Tiny Thornhill, was in the market for a new head coach . In contrast, Shaughnessy's Chicago team had won no games and was defeated by such scores as 85-0 and 61-0.

There were Stanford alumni who were pushing for other candidates, among them Dud DeGroot of San Jose State and Buck Shaw of Santa Clara, who

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The quest for tickets to soothe bowl fever is eternal.

the Liberty Bowl. The Tide was beaten then, 7-0, but the trend was established. When Alabama battered UClA in the Lib­erty Bowl last December in Memphis, it was the 18th consecutive season the Tide had gone to a bowl game, 18 consecutive years ofh unting for a bowl victory. In spite of a dry spell in 'Barna bowl wins, the Alabama fans still packed the car, or van, or trailer, and backed their team wherever it was playing.

Then, two seasons ago, Alabama won the first Sugar Bowl in the Superdome, defeating Penn State. But had the Tide lost even then, the people would've kept packin' and backin'.

Alabama is not alone in its infatuation with bowls. From the Big Eight, we give you the unofficial Kings of the Road, Ne­braska and Oklahoma.

Nebraskans are very fond of Husker football, and for 87 straight home games (through the end of last season), 76,400 had jammed the stadium to capacity, a national record for consecutive sellouts. Nebraskans are lalso\fond of kidding how, on those SatUI'days, the stadium is the third largest city in the state, behind Omaha and Lincoln.

Nebraska was thinking of expanding the stadium by 8,000 seats. In the five days after those plans were disclosed, there were over 20,000 requests for the seats . Time to reconsider further expansion.

They .drive for hours and hours and hundreds of miles, from all over the state, to see ·Husker football. No one is more fanatical, though, than one Charlie Wink­ler, the middle-aged man froo'J Grand Is­land who is The Husker Fan. Charlie never misses a game, home or away, and often drives to watch practice. Charlie also wants his ashes sprinkled over Memorial Stadium when he dies . Devotion.

But there are others equally fervent, if not as burning with desire.

. When the Huskers played in Hawaii last year, an estimated 16,000 fans made the trip. That was called the largest airlift for any sporting event in history, and when those 16,000 said aloha, they had pumped over $1 million into the island in their five-day stay.

Then it was on to the Astro-Blue bonnet Bowl against Texas Tech. That was the eighth consecutive bowl for Nebraska, and, until a loss to Arizona State in the Fiesta Bowl the year before, the Huskers had won six straight bowls, tying the na­tional record held by Georgia Tech.

Nebraska nearly always sells out its ticket allotment for bowls, and when the Huskers made two consecutive appear­ances in the Orange Bowl in the early '70s,

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they averaged nearly 15,000 fans. But to hear Oklahoma fans speak, Nebraska comes much later COmpared to the Sooner state.

Like Nebraska, Oklahoma has The Fan: Cecil Samara, who towed his Model A Ford to Miami two years ago, then blasted his horn,which plays "Boomer Sooner" all week before the Orange Bowl. There were over 14,000 Oklahoma fans there listening. There were the rich alums from Texas, the oil people, who flew in . There were the regulars, often dozens of people from the same prairie town who had chartered a bus for some fun in the sun. As one Sooner says, "You and I could go to some of the small towns here when it's bowl time, and go in there and rob every store.'"

Traveling with the Sooners is, indeed, a ritual in Oklahoma. But even where bowl­ing is a relatively new experience, the pas­sion and intensity is evident. Consider last year's Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, be­tween those two local favorites, Brigham Young and Oklahoma State.

There are some 30,000 hotel and motel rooms in the Orlando area. And while those 30,000 rooms were booked solid last December, many of them were Mormons backing BYU, and, of course, some 5,000 OSU fans who had made the pilgrimage to Florida. That figure was held down­because the school was in the midst of final exams.

That had been only BYU's second bowl appearance. It was just the second bowl for Oklahoma State since 1958, the first coming in the 1974 Fiesta Bowl against­guess who?-BYU. But the greatest joy, after the longest.drought, was quite prob­ably in Kentucky.

The Spiritual Rebirth, mint julep vari­ety, took place in Atlanta. The Wildcats were in Atlanta, in the Peach Bowl. In ANY bowl for the first time since Jan. 1, 1952 . Bear Bryant wasthe,Kentucky coach then, and Babe Parilli was the quarterback who beat Texas Christian, 20-7 .

From 1952 through 1975 was a long drought, but last year, it was different . After winning the Peach Bowl bid there

were wild celebrations in the streets that night - by Kentucky fans , after the Wildcats' 7-0 victory over Tennessee.

It only increased in intensity in Atlanta. With North Carolina the opponent, the entire city was splashed in blue . The night before the game, the entire Kentucky fol­lowing was in good spirits. There were over 37,000 ofthem there, 37,000 who had traveled some 450 miles . They wo uld guarantee the first sellout in Peach Bowl history, but this night they were overflow­ing their hotel headquarters.

Back in Louisville, Kentucky was play­ing Notre Dame in basketball. So there in Atlanta, there were huge closed-circuit television screens set up in the h otel. It was not your basic intimate gathering: the newspapers reported nearly 30,000 Ken­tuckians in the hotel.

There was a near riot then, and hysteria when the Wildcats blew out the Irish . It would be bitterly cold the next day, and the crowd would be limited, but the in­tensity would not. The city of Atlanta, cer­tainly, would love Kentucky to be there once again: it realized some $13.4 million in business that weekend.

There would, of course, be the peak in New Orleans, a party town to begin with, and THE party town with Pitt and Georgia there. Pitt, with its coach's liberal, 2 a .m. curfew for most of the time his team was there . Georgia, with ' its loud and loy<tl Bulldog fans living New Orleans to the hilt, many living in the same hotel as the Pitt team. They needled the Panthers (es­pecially Dorsett) on Bourbon Street , tauI)ted them in the hotel lobby, with chants of "Dog-food, dog-food." Pitt , of course, would answer those cries com­pletely on New Year's morning, and Dor­sett would answer them magnificently.

This year? Don't know. Perhaps it will be you, or the person near you, or the person across the field, partying on Bou r­bon Street. For the majority of you wh o don't get there, there is still sweet consola­tion: the buildup to all of this. The football season at hand, and the promise of more great ones ahead ...

Punting averages are going up all over the nation as the mechanics of the punter's art become more widely understood.

Punting: an intriguing craft. Many talented football players couldn 't kick a 20-yard spiral if their lives

depended on it. Other men 1'kyrocket 'em 60 yards with a synchronized mo­tion that appears to be second nature.

Johnny Evans, North Carolina State's punter deluxe, who averaged 46.1 yards, which tied him for second in the nation last year, feels punters are born rather than made.

"I've punted quite a few years and watched a lot of people punt, and I have an inclination to think they're born," he said. ' 'I've been given the God-given talent of being able to . kick-but I work on it.

"Some can work as much as they want to, but if they don't have that nat­ural leg drive, it will be hard for them. I think it's important to be born with that natural leg drive."

''I've always told everybody I think kicking is a God-given talent," agreed Russell Erxleben of Texas, a junior who led the nation with a 46.6-yard average last season. "You can work at it. You have to take advantage of it. But it's something you 're born with."

"You have to have a certain natural ability," said Larry Swider, who aver­aged 44.8 yards as a senior for Pittsburgh's 1976 national champion­ship team.

"My father, John Evans, Sr., is prob­ably the only one who has ever been able to coach me," Evans said. " He punted at High Point College himself. He took me out in the backyard when I was Q or 6 and taught me the basics.

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The follow-through is jost as important as any other ingredient in producing high, long, spiralling punts that seem to h~ng in the sky.

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The UTinning team from America's most entertaining couple . .. Mr and Mrs "T."

When the final score goes up, you'll always find the cocktail mixes from Mr and Mrs "T" the winner-that's because they make the perfect drink every time!

So, at home or away, always pick one from the "winning team" and you'll be amazed at how easy it is to entertain with Mr and Mrs "T"

bably more than anything, he But pro . , d a lot of Interest. , I can t re-

showe . d if b r him ever turning me own 1

mem ~ to play catch or kick a football." wante ."

E lans sees punting as a very me-

h \ 'cal process, beginning with the c aOl . . d Drop it as straIght and flat on the

rap . d h' . foot as possible. The sec on t Ing IS

t ralleg drive. Some people are lucky na U I d' b have a lot of natural eg rIve, ut totl rs have to work on weights . Thirdly, a 1e . , follow straight through Wlth the leg. 1

tch Ray Guy and other great punters, ::d when they finish, the foot is higher than the head."

No, it isn 't simply a matter of kicking hard at the ball.

Swider speaks of "controlled impact" and says punting is "like golf."

Evans makes the comparison, too. "Somebody like Sam Snead, with a nice

Punting requires concentration for consis­tency with a good "drop."

sweet swing, gets the distance. It's not how hard you kick it at all."

Football players are supposed to be all fired up, right? Not if they're punters. They had better be Cool Hand (Cool Foot?) Lukes.

"A punter can't afford to get all tensed up like a linebacker, for in­stance," Swider said. "He's got to have a cool head , say, six 'times a game. But a linebacker is out there hitting for maybe 120 or 130 plays."

?ood punting is more than distance. "b 1 do set myself goals," Evans said,

ut, more than setting distance goals 1 tho k . , In about return yardage . Our guys

have to be able to cover the kick. It's Ve . . ry Important to get a long hang time. 1

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Many punters agree that natural leg-drive is the key ingredient in being able to boom out 60-yard spirals.

like to focus on the team aspect of it. We set a goal as a team of keeping their return& to Jess than a yard average.

"If 1 can punt it 45 or 46 yards and keep them from returning it, we've ac­complished what we want to do . It doesn't help if 1 average 46 yards and the other te<\m returns it 10 yards every time."

Swider said, "We were sixth in 1976 in net punting. We should have finished much higher, but 1 had two blocked. At one time we were first or second." ·

"I go for a 4.2-second hang time," Swider continued. "But my average ' is usually 4 .5 to 4.8 . The coaches believe that from the snap until the time 1 kick should be 2.2 seconds."

Swider was a wide receiver and safety in high school, but when he was re­cruited, the coaches told him they were mainly interested in him as a punter. He played a little defense early in his college career, but soon became exclu­sively a punter.

"It was hard at first," Swider said, "but 1 took an in-depth look at it, and 1 really fee"! I'm a better punter by not playing. You don't get that little extra edge if you play."

Evans disagrees, at least where he is concerned. He's a starting quarterback, a genuine triple-threat man who can pass, run and kick.

"1 ,analyzed it," he said. "When 1 was

a freshman and not playing much, 1 was 011 the sidelines and thinking about punting, going through my checklist. 1 think 1 got more nervous than it helped me. On the field and playing more, 1 didn't have time to think about the punting. It just became a mechanical thing-and that's what punting should be, mechanical."

He even took a turn as a running back as a sophomore, and he remembers, "The games in which 1 ran the ball most were the games in which 1 punted best . 1 don't know whether there's any corre­lation.

"But 1 have been fortunate that 1 haven't had any injuries that have hurt my punting."

Erxleben, who was a high school quarterback, is a placekicker as well as punter, but he plays no other position. "1 miss it a lot, but it's one of those things," he said. "I play quarterback on the scout team and keep busy. And 1 was the second leading tackler on the specialty teams." Though most punters are the last defender between an escap­ing return man and the goal, Erxleben charges downfield in pursuit of the man catching the kick.

Once he considered leaving school because his only ' duties were kicking. "When 1 was a freshman, 1 was thinking about transferring, but now I'm happy 1 stayed." continued on 16t

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CLARK SHAUGHNESSY -were turning out winning teams a few miles down the road.

"The appointm ent of Shaugh~essy a distinct shock to all of us, d e-was al . . .

clared one prominent umm m prmt. "Why stanford should go so fa~ afield to get a comparative 'unkn own' IS beyond

US~~aughneSsy impressed Stanford offi­cials, including President Ray Lyman Wilbur who gave him a five-year con­trac t to rebuild the football program . But on March 21, 1942, Stanford was without a head coac h again when Shaughnessy resigned. .

After going th rough a 10-0 season hIS first year, Stanford tailed off to a 6-3 record in 1941, losing to Washington State , 14-13, and California , 16-0, in the final games. The '41 campaign was dis­appointing to Shaugh n essy -who had a veteran squad hit by key injuries-but this was not his reason fo r resigning.

Shaughnessy, then 50, shifted to the University of Marylan d as head coach and di rector of athletics. He explained he was making the change because of the greater opportu n ities "to work with boys in Maryland 's sports-for-all pro­gram ."

One of Sha ughnessy's assistants, Marchie Schwartz, became Stanford's head coach and directe d the team to a 6-4 record in 1942. Stanford gave up football from 1943 to 1945 because of World War II.

At Maryland, Shaughnessy led the Terrapins to'a 7-2 record in '42 . Then he was on the m ove again,. going to the University of Pittsbu rgh to take over another de-emphasized football team.

Faced with youn g, inexperienced wartime squad s, he had a record of 10 wins and 17 d efeats during his three years at Pitt. In 1946, Shaughnessy re­turned to Maryland , but after one sea­son resigned to ac t as advisory coach to the Washington Red skins and write a technical book , "Th e Modern T For­mation," a collection of plays drawn up m collaboration with Halas and Ralph Jones .

Moving again, Sh aughnessy became an advisor for the Los Angeles Rams and was elevate d to head coach in 1949. The Rams lost to the Philadelphia Eagles 14-0 in the NFL's 1949 champi­onship game.

From 1951 through 1962, Shaughnessy Was with Halas, and served on the Bears' coaching staff as a technical advisor.

Life ended for Shaughnessy on May IS, 1970 at a Santa Monica, Ca., hospital, after he had d evoted six decades to

In this classic crossbuck, the quarterback can hand off to anyone of three backs.

football as a player, coach and coun­selor.

Shaughnessy was a tall, raw-boned man with a friendly, easy-going manner. His image is vividly remembered by many of his players today, especially those involved with Stanford's 1940 Wow Boys.

Frank Albert, an All-America quarter­back during both of Shaughnessy's sea­sons on The Farm, now lives in retire­ment in Menlo Park, Ca., near the Stan­ford campus.

"I often wonder what college football would be like had he not come up with the change," says Albert.

"The T was there, but he's the man who brought about its refinement. He was a genius with his football philoso­phy.

"I don't think I've ever met a man who was more devoted to this game," adds Albert, who was a star pro quar­terback and later head coach of the San Francisco 4gers. "It was his life, he lived for it ... and he knew his business ."

After becoming Stanford's coach, Shaughnessy spent hours pouring over films of the 1939 team to evaluate the talent available. Albert had been some­what of an inept tailback that season as a sophomore.

Another tailback, Pete Kmetovic, was shifted to left halfback; Hugh Gallarneau was picked for right halfback, and Norm Standlee the fullback . An injury short­lived Kmetovic 's pro career with the Eagles, but Gallarneau and Standlee went on to become standouts in the NFL-Gallarneau with the Bears and Standlee with the Bears and then the 4gers.

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On the power sweep, the quarterback pitches or hands off to one halfback who has two other backs and one (or two) pull­ing guards blocking ahead of him. This is often called " student body right."

"He had a total system that teams are still using today," says Kmetovic, an administrator in Stanford's athletic de­partment. "His whole thing was to do a lot of different things."

Gallarneau, an executive with the Hart, Schaffner and Marx clothiers in Chicago, remembers how Shaughnessy scrapped the single and double wings of 1939, which opponents had found

.easy to defense. "We were all a little reluctant when

he came to Stanford," tells Gallarneau. "About all we knew of him was that he had been at a school that dropped football.

"But he revolutionized the sport. He had such an instinctively imaginative mind!"

The transition wasn't easy. At times, it was like a chamber of horrors.

Spring practice in 1940 was such a disappointment that Shaughnessy thought seriously of junking the T after just one week of drills, according to re­tired Stanford sports historian Don Liebendorfer. And the varsity was beaten by the freshmen in a scrimmage the week before the season opener against the University of San Francisco.

Things were so uncertain that Albert had to ask Kmetovic how to run some of the plays.

"We called him Perfect Pete," says Standlee, "because he was the only one who knew the plays ."

Stanford was a 21-point underdog to USF, but Shaughnessy 's team came out on top with a 27-0 victory.

"By the third game we were really convinced," recalls Gallarneau. "We knew we were on our way." ..

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Erxleben knocked in 12 of 20 field go:u attempts-~ncluding a 57-yarder -10 1976. He mIssed only once inside the 50. He made 21 of 22 extra paint tries and kicked off.

All that plus a 46.6-yard punting aver­age. But Erxleben isn't pleased with the circumstances that he feels led to the average . " I think the reason 1 led the nation in punting was because our of­fense didn't spark too well," he said. "We were always punting from the other side of the 50, and there was plenty of room. It's not really that mUch of an honor." He hesitated a second and said, "It 's an honor for me, but not for the team." .

When they list Colorado State's Mike Deutsch's positions on the lineup, it re­sembles a bowl of alphabet soup. Be­side his name are P, QB and DHB. And if you need him at OHB, just whistle.

When all the quarterbacks were hurt, Deutsch played the whole game under center and led the Rams to victory over Utah State . He played defensive halfback in three games. And he threw a halfback option pass that covered 68 yards and set up the go-ahead touchdown in a win over Air Force.

Deutsch, a senior this season, punted 68 times in 1976-and 20 of them went more than 50 yards. Against New Mexico he kicked nine times, with six ove~ 50 yards . Against Arizona, four of his nine punts were over 50 yards. His 46 .1 average tied him with Evans for second in the nation.

And this makes his feats even more remarkable: nearly three years ago he was in an automobile accident and suf­fered such a severe injury to his kicking leg that doctors thought they might have to amputate .

One year Swider and place kicker Carson Long dressed as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and used the picture on the front of their Christmas cards with the caption, "Butch and Sundance are back." Open the cards and there were Swider and Long in uni­form with the notation, "But just for kicks."

They commemorated the end of their eligibility with a Christmas card fronted with a picture of the cowboy-garbed pair wielding blazing guns and the cap­tion, "Butch and Sundance are going out with a bang." .

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In the three-deep zone, the defensive ends help with short coverage, while the linebackers may have to drop deeper to prevent any two­on-one mismatches against deep backs.

age. Here, two defensive backs mentally chop the field in half(there is n o marker Qr line running down the middle of the field lengthwise), and each is responsible for protecting his half of the fie ld against t he long pass.

Again, u sing common sense, this zone's strengths and weaknesses become ap­parent. Against the long pass this zone, used exactly as described, might prove vulnerable . A half of th e field's width is considerable territory. If t h e offense sends two or more potential pass receivers into 'iny single zone (aptly called "flooding the zone"), on e man will have a difficult, not to say impossible, time of covering each receiver closely. We now move on to the slightly m ore complex. The "two deep" zone then is best used

against either the short pass or the run. With only two men back deep, the defense has nine men in position to defend against the run or short pass. The key, or at least a single key, is the defensive signal caller's ability to predict, based on past performances, the type of p lay t h e offen­sive leader will call . The defense would Sincerely like to avoid a "two deep" align­ment when the offense decides to send a tight end, a split end, a flanker and a halfback all on deep pass patterns at the same time .

But, of course, from time to time, the defense calls the wrong alignment , or the offense ju st sends more men into anyone zone than the defender can safely handle. What can the defensive back do? How can he protect against the prospect of receiv-

ers at the various boundaries (or" seams") of his designated zone? He can obey the first commandment of defens ive backs : NEVER GET BEAT DEEP! The defe ndel' wi ll stay between t he receivers, bu t deeper tha n them, hoping to be able to react quickly enough to a ny ba ll t hrown into his territory.

It sho uld also be no ted that the clever defender is able to use the s ideli nes to hi s advantage. After a ll, a I'eceiver forced o u t of bounds is a p ass n ullifi ed. Sim il ady, a I'eceiver trying to beat a defender QY sp lit­ting the seam rrtay be d istas tefully su r­prised by the presence of the defe ns ive back from the adjoin ing zone. T here's cer­tainly no law p rohibit ing a defensive back from he lp ing o ut his neig h bo r. T hi s leads to another tip to the novice (and no t-so­novice ) fa n ... don't be too q uick to b lame the defensive back w ho looks like he's just been ta ken to t he cleaners : Th a t apparent incompetent may be just trying to help out a co lleague w ho had been un­avo idab ly preoccupied w ith anot her po­tent ia l receiver in a distan t area o f his zone. Indeed, it may I'equi re a coach's scrutiny of a gam e film to de te rm ine w ho, if anyone; was gu ilty of malfeasance .

Rela t ively simple so fal'? Good. Now comes the difficult part, the mu lti tude of divel'se sets that can be employed from either of the basic zon e defenses. Don't worry; space will permit only a bareboned in troduc tion to these zone variat ions.

These varia tions are designed to con­fuse the qu arterback a nd keep him guess­ing as to w h at kin d of defense he'll be

fa cing. One type oi"variation is the rotation cif the d efe n sive backs . A simple example of a rota tio n would be to have the strong­side safe ty (55 ) play t he short zone for o nce a nd le t the left s ide cornerback go back into the deep zone. A rotating zone might delud e the qu arterback into think­ing, ifonly fo r a moment , that the defense, perso n ified by the 55 as a defensive key, is really p l'epa ri ng for a run rather than a lo ng pass. The on~-second delay that this switch in assignments may ca use the QB is all th a t 's needeq to tur'n tbe advantage from the offense to the defe nseThe exa m ­ple is a b it s imple a 'ld obvious, but you can see the in fi nite variety of conceivable as­signment switches 01' rotations.

A splin ter off the idea of rotating as­s ignments is to have the defense use a zone with partial man-to-man coverage . Should the opposition be blessed w ith a superb receiver, s trategy m ight d ictate that o ne excellent d e fende r be ass igned to that receiver at all times, w hile the rest of th e pass defense p lays a zo ne. Such strat­egy would be a subtl e way of giving that receiver doub le coverage, since he ']] be b lanketed by his ass ign!ld defender, plus the defendel' in w hichever zone he hap­pe ns to be.

Mention ing th e presence of an excel­len t rece iver s uggests anotlier advan tage of the zo ne, an advantage which works to cance l the effec tiveness of anyone out­s ta nding rece iver. Great receivers are u s ual ly recognized by their ability to run pa ttern s q u ite pl'ecise ly, making such

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I f footba ll coaches advertised for players, the want ad wou ld like ly read something like this:

"Wanted: lar contact sport, must have quickness . Size and speed helpful, but not essential."

Speed helps, but a quick start is often the key to a successful play.

UICKNESS •• ~a dominant characteristic in football by Joe McLaughlin, HOllston CHRON I CLE

Quickness an d speed are two attributes that are sometimes confused with each other. According to Webster , speed is the act or state of m ovin g swiftly, as in velocity or rate of mo tion . Q uickness is the promptness of physical movemen t, as in reaction.

Speed is usually God-given and is im­proved upon through coaching and trai n ­ing techniques, while quickness is in­stilled and developed.

Quickness ... coaches constantly seek it, p layers incessantly strive for it and All-

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The whole concept of modern football is based on quickness at every pos ition, whether it be on the defensive line, where size and strength are equally important , or at wide I'eceiver where speed is also impOl'tant.

Al l footba ll coaches wi ll te ll you that quickness is in dispensable in having a winning footba ll team. Speed, they allow, is a bonus fac tor.

Whet her it's a quartel'back roll ing out, a

linebacker gelling to the heal't of t he ac­tion, a guard pulling out to lead interfer­ence, or a cornerback breaking for a pass interception attempt , quickness is the· most coveted asset a player can possess.

Few defens i ~/e tackles have eve I' been accused of being speedy. Bu t they'd bet­ter be quick or they 'll I'esemble bu ll ­fighters , waving at passing ball calTiers.

The ability to accelel'ate is a prime req­uisite. One coach points out that, for in­stance, if a quartedJack has quick fee t, it is not necessary that he have b ll rning speed.

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sharp moves that defenders are often two or three steps behind them at t l1e crucial mome nt when the ball arrives . In a zone, those movements are good for delighting the crowd !lnd nothing more . Remember, a defender in a zone plays behind his nemesi~ in a given area. All the faking in the world can 't impress the defender,be­cause he doesn 't have to stay with the receivtlr lfhe goes into the next zone. Fur­thermpre, running a complicated pass patt err. woule;! give the defense more time to rllSh the quarterback-and force an errant pass. Grist for the zo ne defender's mill. '

The zone defense couldn 't possibly be fully q issected and digested in one short lessorl, It would be folly to a ttempt more than jLI~1 a sketchy introduction. I do want , however, to dispel any impression tpqt l1ass defense is the bailiwick solely of thtl defensive backs. Linebackers, too, Have it huge interest in any zone d efepse, besidtls . having to diagnose accurately <lpd qu i'ckly the threat of a running play. Linebackers are pr{inarily concerned witit the short zone in a pass, defense. Their general omission in this article was for the sake of breyity.

A final word : while th e tone h ere might have been rather dry, the intent was to impart even greater apprecia tion to a dramat ic sport. Apply to your observa­tions the principles discussed above. Watch what the defensive backs do at the snap of the ball. If three men drop back deep, you 'll know th",t the defense be­lieves a long pass is imminent . If the zone drops two men back, the expectations are for a short P<lSS or a run. e-

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"Hobart Amory Hare Baker was the ideal of the pre-war age, golden and godlike, as brilliant at football as he was at hockey. There was gallantry and good grace in his world. Everyone who went to Princeton with him wanted to be his equal. or somewhere near. He was modest and generous with his manners. He had gone off to fly for the LafaYE tte Escadrille and had survived the fighting. When he died in a crash after the armistice, some of us were sure that all gods were untrue and all heroes dead. Slowly, we came to realize that Hobart Baker had known himselt better than we knew him or we had known ourselves or could ever hope to know ourselves."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

O n the morning they said the final solemn words over this fine young golden football player, this

fallen athlete with a quiet courage and a special grace, the San Francisco news­papers were jammed with stories about professio nal players who were demand­ing millions of dollars from their employ­ers because nature had capriciously given them exceptional physiques. There was Joe Roth, perhaps the finest college quar­terback in the· nation, lying in his coffin, and Fitzgerald's eulogy for Hobey Bakerof Princeto n kept pouring through the mind. In death he seemed no larger or more appealing than he had in life. He was just the same. The mourners kept pouring across the

Pro scouts labeled Joe Roth the best pure passer to come out of college since Joe Namath. '

University of California campus, some dressed in denim, others 'in three-piece suits and ties, a fewin sandals and cutoffs. They came from the whole spectrum of society. Old men who had bought season tickets before Pappy Waldorf's Rose Bowl teams were born sobbed right next to small children who had only seen Joe Roth in television films, while post-hippie types wept at the side of middle-aged, football-worshipping ex-fraternity men.

The young man who evoked this range of emotion was an All-America, All-Pac­Eight quarterback and a brilliant, record­setting passer. Pro scouts had come to Berkeley and watched him studiously. They called him the best pure passer to come out of college football since Joe Namath adecadeearlier. Theysaid hewas even better than Steve Bartkowski, which is high praise indeed. The latter had pre­ceded him at Cal and was selected first in the annual pro football draft.

Joe Roth was an exceptional athlete, but the thing that made him stand out in the hearts of those close to him was that he was an extraordinary human being. He died of cancer late last-winter, just a few months after the football season, but the

way he dealt with the cancer while he was still alive will be remembered a long time.

He had had a malignant tumorremoved when he was stillinjuniorcollege, and felt sure he had been cured. By his second season at Cal, his senior year there, he was being touted for the Heisrilan Trophy, col­lege football's highest honor. But midway through the season he discovered a recur­rence of the melanoma, a particl,llarly le­thal form of the disease . Undergoing treatment with no public announcement ofthe problem,Joe com pleted the football season, passing for 1,789 yards (fifth best nationally), and continued to lead a nor­mal campus life. Instead of dropping out or moving back home, he remained active in his classes, played on an intramural basketball team, and helped his coaches with recruiting.

Even lat~, when it became obVious that the situation was deterior.ating, his posi­tive outlook and acceptance of the situa­tion made it so much easier for his friends and family. His approach to life in those final weeks and months served as an in­spiration, e liciting such comments as "a phenomenal guy, " "great courage and a desire to live," "so positive and hopeful,"

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR-Deeply moved by Joe Roth's courageous battle for life, Wells Twombly eagerly volunteered to write this article. And while applying the finishing touches, Twombly himself was waging a fight for his life, a fight he would lose on Memorial Day, 1977, at age 41. A 1957 University of Connecticut graduate, Wells was a sports columnist for the San Francisco Examiner since 1970. He was named California Sportswriter of the Year four times and selected one of the nation 's six top sportswriters by Esquire Magazine In 1974. He authored four books, the last published earlier thiS year, 200 Years of Sport In America.

and "never complaining." Th is was a genuine hero in the classic

American sense. He was a profile in cour­age and decency, dead long before his t ime. He had deep fai th and honest mod­esty. In a cynical age, with people losing the ancient belief that college athletics builds character, Joe Roth h ad escalated everyone's values. Despite the cancer, he was more fretful about upsett ing other people who might have worried about him than sitting around contemplating his own impending doom . He touched so many people in so many ways that, as Hemingway said, he could not help but die cleanly and well. He was ayoung man who had softened the h earts of "the . most cynical and far-out campu s in the country," said one observer.

Before Christmas, a writer asking for a stOly said, "Joe, I'd like to see you and do a magaZine piece on you now th at the col­lege season is over. They thinkyou may be drafted first by the pros and I just want to do something light and pleasant on how it feels. I did a s to ry like that on Steve (Bartkowski) a few years back. When can I meet with you?"

Well, he said, the timing was a little off. Cancer had flared up again and he pre­ferred not to have it made public. He had these two desires . Joe Roth wanted to graduate from Cal and he wanted to be drafted in the first round by the National Football Leagu e. And, by heaven , he was going to accomplish both if he could just be given time enough. He had a 3.2 grade average in the school of physical educa­tion and there were so many teams after him that it was almost ludicrous.

This was not the sort of athlete who would insult a newsman with arrogant indifference. Joe Roth would talk to any­one as long as they wanted to talk to him. He con sidered it a singular compliment that somebody would consider him that important, even though he was the best quarterback around. Wh at's more, he didn 't want to hire an agent, preferring to trust his own good instincts. There was a period when the University of California at Berkeley was considered to h ave an a ura of anti-American spirit, but Roth was not afraid to challenge that myth. He was his own man and wante d people to enjoy footbal l again, but h e didn 't want to be made out a pathetic character.

"I'd re ally appreciate it if you didn't mentio n the fac t that the thing has come back," he said . ''I've licked it once before andI'mgoing to try to do it again. Don't tell anYbody else about it. I don't w ant to be thought of as a freak. So I'm Joe Roth, the quarterback from Cal; that doesn 't make

Joe Roth never wanted to be thought of as anything but plain old Joe.

me special at all . If the guy who sold pa­pers at the corn er had the same thing, nobody would cal'e. They took that black mole out from behind my ear a couple of years ago . Sonietimes it works and some­times it doesn't. "

Joe Roth was a yo ung man of great c h aracter a n d decency, his cQurage deeply grounded in religious faith. He was a special kind of human being, the kind who would lead a 41-year-old newspaper columnist to remark (after his first meet­ing and interview) that he wished his daugh ter could find someon e like that when she was old enough to get married.

It was an emotional thing to say, and in two years a t California, Joe never did any­thing that would make him change his mind. He was always pleasant and always courteous . When a nother Writer called him to ask why he hadn't been able to play i.n the East-West Game, he gave one of those" aw shucks" statements. Thel'e was an ach e in his back, and he 'd been losing weight, but he'd be willing to sit still for a n inte nriew in a week or two . He just wanted to be in the Hula Bowl and p laya few downs .

By mid-Jan u ary, many California sportswriters knew. But keeping faith with Joe Roth seemed awfully important , even at the risk of dece iving one's co l­leagues. Oh, Joe was fine, jus t fin e. No , the re was no recurre nce of the can cer. Back in the office ,a reporter called a doc­tor, and the medical-type said that it was hopeless. But Joe was one ofthose people whom you could lie abo ut and not feel guilty. It seemed like an intelligent matter and nobody from the San Francisco Bay

Area wanted to hit him down, because h e was spending hiS las t few weeks on the planet talking to groups of people who, like him, had terminal diseases.

He never kept the appointment for that intenriew. He was going to speak to a large gathering, as many as 450 people; after­wards, he was going to viSit with a San Francisco columnist and talk about cop­ing with cancer. His doctor told the writer that Joe Roth had maybe three months a t the most because the disease was spread­ing; don't count 011 talking to him. The doctor was right. On the evening h e was to speak, he was back in tbe hospitaL h aving taken a s udden turn for the worse.

Ironically, he was go ing to talk on how he had overcome cancer. It was to have been h is first public s ta tement on actually being a can cer vict im.

One teammate, tackle Ted Albrecht, was absolutely st unned by Joe Roth 's courage . "I don't know how he can live with that thing, or how he can handle it so easily. He just calms everybody with his courage. A lot of writers are sitting on this story. They know abo ut it and they won't use it because they like him. I think they are tired of athletes w ho think only of themselves. Nobody will ever say th at about Joe."

In the East-West Game in Palo Alto it was reported that Roth h ad a bad back and couldn 't play. People w ho watched him knew that he h ad lost weight . He was down around 175 pounds and he seemed almost unable to caflY the weight of the shoulder pads he would have to wear. The cancer was getting much worse, affecting almost every part of his body. In the Hula Bowl in Hawaii he played a few downs and threw some passes a nd took a modest beating from some defensive linemen who we re aware of his situation and tried to knock him down gently, but with re­spect. The n in the Japan BowL he com­pleted five p!l-sses for 100 y ards and walked away a happy man . A little more than a month later he was dead .

"Dying is not so tough ," he said to a friend . "For the last three years I've lived with the realization that the next day might be my last. I'm lucky to be here as long as I was, so don 't feel any pity. A lot of p eople younger than me and older than m e have to face up to this sort ofthing. I'm nothing special. I'm just Joe Roth, a stu­dent and a football player."

But what he did possess was the abil ity to soften the hearts of stud ents and cyni­cal sportswriters alike . When it became obvious to him that it was all over, h e told the doctors that he was leaving the hospi­tal to be with his family a nd friends, and

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QUICKNESS

He says he had one youngster who could "scald the eal,th" with his speed, but "he could n 't run," meaning he could not es­cape a cornerback to get open for a pass nor run away from a would-be-tackler.

When quickness and speed are com­bined you have the epitome of a great athlete. Quickness (acce leration ) can propel a fast ball carrierOI' l1ankerinto full speed after two or three strides.

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arm !l1IOVement. One drill used by almost every coach

has runners stepping into the openings of automobile tires lined up in two rows. Athletes run through this drill as rapidly as possible and soo n impl'Ove upon their quickness of foot.

Generally speaking, the haltback or running back has a bettel' combination of speed and quickness than the fu llback. The h a llback uses both quickness and speed in getting " to the corner" on a pitchout and making th e cu t upfield . Speed then comes into play once the c ut

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upfield has been executed. The quickerhe is at getting to the corner and making the cut, the more running room he'll have before the defensive pursuit catches u p.

The quarterback, of course, can handle difficult situations such as the stl'Ong pass rush if he has the elusiveness and quick­ness of foot that allow him to scramble . For a drop-back passing quarterback, speed is not a prerequ isite. Still, quickness of foot and hand al'e necessary for a quick l'8lease against a pressure rush.

Speed probably is more evid ent among wide receivers than at any ot h er position. Although there are except ions, a wide re­ceiver can be much more effective ifhe has native speed.Again, however, quickness is the key to success . A wide receiver who can make sudden stops, make cuts "on a dime," and accelera te rapidly has an ad­vantage.

Speed sometimes is over-evaluated for a defensive back. Obviously, if secondary coverage calls fo ra man-to -man defense, a defensive back must have enough speed to stay with a fast receiver. However, a cornerback who doesn't have great speed can align himself deeper, then use his in­tui tive reaction to cover a receiver on a down-and-out or curl patte rn .

[f the cornerback has short coverage responsibilty, speed is not important. I one-an-one coverage he must "cheat" on his alignment in covering for the deep pa t tern by getting a good, quick jump. The better his speed, the tighter he can afford to playa receiver.

A free safety in most systems must have great quickness, becau se h e may ge t stretch ed more (cover more area) than the corners . Quickness will give him more freedom in camo uf1aging his coverage. For instance, he can pos it io n himself a longside the linebackers as ifprepared to blitz and s till be able to retreat fas t enou gh to pl'Otect against the pass. His quickne'ss and speed dictate the e xpanse of his coverage and, ifhe is well equipped with both, it is difficult to burn him on a pass .

A stl'Ong safety in most defensive sys­tems rarely covers the deep patterns. He is generally on the side with two receivers and his prime concern is the inside re­ceiver. In a zone coverage, his only deep responsibility would be if the inside re­ceiver went deep. If in a man-to-man alignmen t, he must have the speed and quickness of a cornerback. In a two-deep alignment the strong safety would need more speed because of the wider range of territory he must cover.

In the final analysis, it 's not necessarily howfast a playeris;it 's how quickly he can use his speed . • .

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T OTAL OFFENSE Most Plays Game-76, Mike Stripling (Tu lsa ) vs. JVJ~mphis Sta te, 1965. Se aso n - 5S0, Bill Anderson (Tulsa), 1965. Career-1,579, Ge ne Swick (Toledo ), 1972-75. Most Yards Gained Gam e - 599, Virgi l Carte r (BVU) vs. T exas -El Paso , 1966. S~ason-3 ,343 , Bill . Anderson (T u lsa), 1965. Ca reer - S,074, Gene Swick (Toledo ), 1972-75 .'

R USHI NG Most Rushes Ga me-55, Steve Owe n s (Okla homa) vs. Oklahoma Sta te , 1969. Season-35S, Steve Owens (Oklahoma ), 1969 . Caree r - 1,074, Tony Do rse tt (Pi tt ), 1973-76. Most Yar d s Gained Gan1e-350, Eric Allen (Mich igan St a te ) vs. Purdue, 1971. Season-1,94S, Tony Doi's ett (Pitt ), 1976 . Caree r-6,OS2 , Tony Dorsett (Pitt ), 1973-76 Most Touc hdown s Sc ored Rushing Game- 7, Arnold (Showboat) Boyk in (Mississ ippi) vs . Mississ ippi State , 1951. Season-26, Lyde ll M itc h ell (Penn Sta te ), 1971 . Career - 56, Steve Owens (Oklah oma), 1967-69 .

PASSING l"i\.iost Passes Attempte d

Ga '1e-69, Chuck Hixso n (SMU ) vs . Oh io State, 1965. Seaso n -509, Bill Ahderso n (Tulsa ), 1965. Cal'eer-1,12S, John Reaves (Florid a ), 1969-71 . Most Passes Completed Game - 42 , Bill An derso n (T ulsa) vs .

_So u thern llI ino is , 1965. Se ason-296, Bill Andel'so n (Tulsa ), 1965. Caree r- 642 , Chuc k Hixson (SMU ), 1965-70. Most P asses Had Inte rce pted Game-9, John Reaves (Flo rid a) vs. Au ­b urn, 1969. Season - 34, John Eckman (Wich ita State ), 1966. Career - 6S, Zeke Bratkowski (Georgia ), 1951-53 . Most Yards Gained Game-561, Tony Adams (L' ta h State ) vs .. Uta h , 1972. Season-2,363, Bill Ande rson (Tu lsa ), 1965. Career-7,549, John Re aves (Flol'ida), 1969-71 . Most Touchdown Passes Game-9, Dennis Shaw (San Diego

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State ) vs. New Me xico State, 1969. Seasdn-39, Dennis Sh aw (San Diego State), 1969. Career-69, Steve Ramsey (Nort h Texa s State ), 1967-69.

RE CEIVING Most Passes Ca ught Came-22, Jay Miller IBVU ) vs . New Me xico, 1973. Season-134, Howard Twilley (T ulsa ), 1965. Career-261, Howard Tw illey (Tulsa ), 1963-65. ~ost Ya r d s Gained Game- 349, Chuck Hugh es (Texas-EI Paso ) vs. North Texas State , 1965. Season-1,779, Howard Twilley (T ulsa ), 1965. Career-3,596, Ron Sellers (Florida State ), 1966-6S . Mo st Touc hdown Pas ses Caught Game- 6, Tim Delaney (San Diego State) vs . New Mexico State, 1969 . Season-IS, Tom Reynolds (San Diego Sta te ), 1969 . Career- 34, Elmo Wright (Houston ), 1965-70.

SCORING Most P oints Scored Game- 43, Jim Brown (Syracuse ) vs . Colgate, 1956 . ' Season - 174, Lydell Mitchell (Penn State ), 1971. Career- 356, Tony Dorsett (Pitt ), 1973 -76. Most To uch downs Scored Game-/:, Arnold (Sh owb oat) Boy kin (Mississippi) vs. Mississippi State, 1951. Season-:-29, Lydell Mitc h ell (Penn State), 1971. Career-59, Tony Dorsett (Pitt ), 1973-76 ; Glenn Davis (Anny), 1943-46 . Most Extr a Points Made Kicking Gam e-13, Terry Leiweke (Ho u ston ) vs. Tulsa, 1965. Season-64, Efren Herre l'a (U CLA), 1973; Rich Sanger (Nebraska ), 1971 . Career-149, Ric h Sanger (Ne braska), 1971-73. Most Field Goals Ma de Game-6, Vince Fusco (D uke ) vs. Cle m­son, 1976; Frank Nester (W. Virginia) vs. Villanova, 1972; Charley Gogol ak . (PI'inceton ), 1965. Season - 21, Don Bitte rlich (Temple ), 1975. Career-51, Dave Lawson (Ai l' Fo rce ), 1972-75 .

ALL PURPOSE R UNNING Yardage from R u s hing, Re ceiving and a ll I;tunbacks Game-397, Eric Allen (Michigan State ) vs. Purdue, 1971. Season -2,193, Art Luppino ' (Arizona ), 1954. Career-6,615 , Tony. Dorset t (Pitt ), 1973-76.

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A close friend, John Matlock, gave the eulogy at the high requiem mass . He said that Joe Roth never wanted to be thought of as anything but plain old Joe, all that talk about All-America selections and Heisman Trophies notwithstanding. He went on to talk about Joe Roth singing off key in the shower, overcooking meatloaf, and drinkingbeerwith the boys. He didn't , date much, Matlock explained, because he was afraid that if he got involved, he 'd want to get married and what kind of a life would it be for a wife to have to move from city to city while he played professional football? He figured after he established himselfhe'd have plenty of time to indulge in romance.

"I had to include some funny stuff/' said Matlo~k, "becaUse Joe wouldn't have it any other way. He didn't have too many close friends because he was afraid some­thing might happen and he didn't know how many people could handle this sort of thing. He was afraid that ifhe got close to a girl and he died, it might mark her for life. I think he knew all along this was going to happen, so he kind of backed off." Otherof Roth 's friends added that he was basically shy.

When a man of courage dies, it doesn't mean he's. forgotten. They talked about naming Cal's Stadium after him, which would have made Joe Roth deeply un­comfortable had they discussed it with him while he was alive. But the president of the student government, with the full support of vice-chancellor Robert Kerley, sent a letter to the head of the physical education department asking that he be granted a posthumous degree since he obviously would have earned one. The UC athletic department established a schol­arship fund in his name, and scheduled a Joe Roth Memorial Game for this fall. There is also a melanoma cancer fund in his memory.

"It may be a long time before I really come to uhderstand what Joe gave to us ... what his legacy was," said head coach Mike White. "He had this most amazing courage. He never feared dying. Other p eople would have given up long before he did, but he never ceased fighting. They tell me people in his position usually get bitter. But he was still making jokes and laughing and all that. So when I think of him, Ilaugh. If I don 't do that, Iknow I'll be letting him down. So I laugh and ... if I didn't . .. I know damn well I'd cry. To say that he was an inspiration just isn't enough.".

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OG 6-2 SB 6-2 DB 6-2 DE 5-11 SB 6·2 UB 5-10 DT 6·2 DE 6·2 LB 6·1 DE 6·1 OT 6·4 OB 6·3 LB 6-1 LB 6-2 DB 5·9 SB 5·8 SB 5-9 DB 6-2 DB 6-1 DE 6'()

MB 5·11 TB 6·1 DE 5·11 OG 6·1 TE 6·4 MB 6'()

DE 6·2 OT 6·3 UB 5·10 OB 6·2 DB 6·2 TE 6·1 OG 6·2 UB 6·1 TB 5·10 DB 5·11 OB 5·11 DB 6·0 MG 5-10 LB 6·1 PK 5·10 SB 6·0 TE 6·2 DT 6·2 C 6·1 DB 6·4 DT 6·3 DT 6·1 LB 6'() OG 6·1 LB 6·1 DT 6·4 DT 6·2 DB 6·1 SE 6-2 OB 6·1 TB 5·9 OB 6·2 C 6.()

LB 6'()

OT 6·3 C 6·3 OG 6·3 MB 6·0 DT 6·3 TE 6·4 OT 6·2 DB 5·10 UB 6·1 Mgr. 6'()

·Letterman Age as 01 November 30, 1977

WT. AOE

170 21 165 19 165 19 165 20 210 19 195 18 220 20 235 20 205 18 215 18 205 20 230 17 185 21 245 21 225 21 185 17 185 16 200 20 195 19 215 21 220 17 190 18 210 20 200 21 240 20 190 19 215 19 190 17 160 16 175 21 180 19 185 18 190 22 190 19 195 20 185 17 205 19 220 18 195 22 185 19 200 20 240 20 175 21 185 17 190 18 195 20 230 19 210 18 185 21 190 22 195 21 195 20 215 22 205 20 175 20 195 22 225 21 225 21 215 20 185 18 235 19 230 21 205 21 235 21 205 22 220 17 230 19 180 20 185 20 185 18 180 18 190 18 210 19 205 20 205 18 230 2~

230 22 200 19 210 19 220 19 230 20 180 20 190 20 125 20

YR. HOMETOWN

Jr. Grand Rapids So. Corunna So. Wyoming So. Grand Rapids So. Royal Oak Fr. Jr.

East lansing Warren

So. Warren Fr. Kalamazoo Fr. Midland Jr. Troy Fr. Marcellus Jr. East Detroit Sr. Hazel Park Sr. Escanaba Fr. Marquette Fr. Dearborn So. Portage So. Royal Oak Sr. Flint Fr. Marquette Fr. Royal Oak Jr. New Lothrop Sr. Fruitport Jr. Falmouth So. Grand Rapids So. Westland Fr. Coloma Fr. Allendale Jr. Ann Arbor So. Owosso Fr. Warren Sr. Muskegon So. Flushing Jr. Riverview Fr. Cassopolis So. Saginaw Fr. Livonia Sr. Holly Fr. Kalamazoo Jr. Jr.

Farmington Hills Farmington

So. Saginaw Fr. Midland Fr. Jr. So. Fr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Sr.

Grandville Muskegon Port Huron Harbor Springs Flint Highland Park Saginaw 51. Joseph Grosse Pointe Farms

Jr. Escanaba Jr. 51. ClalrShores Sr. Detroit Sr. Escanaba Jr. Romulus Jr. Royal Oak Fr. Flint So. Dowagiac Jr. Dowagiac Sr. Cadillac Jr. Sr. Fr.

Avoca Drayton Plains Flint

So. Port Huron Flint Jr.

Jr. Riverview Fr. Newberry Fr. Detroit Fr. Fremont So. Detroit So. East Detroit Fr. Taylor Sr. Ocqueoc Sr. Jacksonville (Ore) So. Rockford So. Escanaba So. Livonia So. Grosse Pointe Woods So. Flint So. Mt. Clemens Jr. Armada

HIOHSCHOOL

Creston Corunna Park Northvlew Kimball East lansing Tower Fitzgerald Loy Norrlx Midland B'ham Brother Rice Marcellus East Detroit Hazel Park Escanaba Marquette Edsel Ford Central Kimball Port Huron Marquette Bishop Foley New Lothrop Fruitport Flint Southwestern Northvlew Livonia Franklin Watervliet Allendale Huron Owosso Fitzgerald Muskegon Flushing Riverview Marcellus Arthur HIli Detroit Catholic Holly Loy Norrlx Harrison Farmington Douglas MacArthur Dow Grandville Mona Shores Port Huron Harbor Springs Beecher Highland Park Arthur HIli St. Joseph H.W. Bish. Gallagher Escanaba lakeview H. W. Bish. Gallagher Escanaba Romulus Kimball Northern Dowagiac Dowagiac Cadillac Yale Waterford Kettering Central Northern Southwestern Riverview Newberry CassTech. Fremont H.W. Blsh. Gallagher H.W. Notre Dame Taylor Center Onaway Oscoda (MI) Traverse City Escanaba Franklin G.P. North Southwestern Clintondale Armada

COACH

J. McG .. N.Annese J. VerDuin M. Slwek P.Temerian J. Smlth M. Barry A.Drath D. BlanChard G. Jozwlak A. Fracaasa J. Wood R. Ruzzln C. Sklnner J. Cvengroa J.Srholec J. Davia B. Knlght P.Temerian A. Wllllck J.Srholec W. Wynlemko J.Oohm T. Holden D. Chrlatlansen M.Slwek A. Vigna G. Barchett W. Frlbarg J.Stlelstra D. Roaa A. Drath l. Harp J. Smlth D. Lessner J. Wood G.lhler T. Mach D. Horner D. BlanChard J. Herrington D. Catherman M. Sklllman A.Oulck B.Glbson J. Loving A.Wllllck C. Palge G. Foldle J. Bobbitt G.lhler I. Muhlenkamp T. Martllolll J. Cvengros R. Luxton T. Martllolll J. Cvengros J.Stalilngs P.Temerlan R. Johnson l. Famlano L. Famlano D. Brines A. Nagy M. Pallerson J. Euflnger J. Bates D. Christiansen D. Lessner M. Carpenter R.Cole P. Blake G. Sahadl A. Baumgart D. Helden J.Srholec l.Oueliman J. Ooley J.Cvengros A. Vigna J. Kruckl D. Christiansen D. Selferleln

,"'PORI THE

GMU DEVELOPMENT FUND YOUR SUPPORT OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY WILL PROVIDE THE MARGIN

TO MAKE A GOOD UNIVERSITY A GREAT UNIVERSITY!!!

Presidents' Club There are several ways in which people may join the Pres idents ' Club:

1. A personal membership (husband and wife Includ. ed can be obtained by a contribution of a minimum of a $1,000 per year for 10 years, or a matching gift, or

2, $10,000 paid In any combination over a 10·year period (such as $2,000 per year for five years, etc.), or

3. Central Michigan University may be made the sole beneficiary of a whole life insurance (not term life) policy of a minimum of $25,000.

4. Corporations may join by making a contribution of $10,000 during a 10·year period, with a minimum of $1,000 per year.

5. $25,000 or more provided through a bequest, a life income agreement, a trust agreement, or other deferred giving instrument.

All Presidents' Club members will receive full Century Club and First Nighters benefits. There are two on campus PreSidents ' Club events every year.

Central Michigan University Development Fund

~II d~nors to the University's gift clubs (Century Club, U~lverslty ASSOCiates, Deans' Club, Presidents' Club, First Nlghters, Friends of Clarke Historical Library, and Friends of the Cultural and Natural History Museum) are contribut ing to the total C.MU Development Fund program. Anyone may make an unrestricted or designated gift to the University.

G.ifts of $1 to $99 will go into the University'S unrestricted or deSignated accounts. All designated gifts go to the school department, or project so specified. Gifts of $100 to $399 an: nually will be placed in the unrestricted or designated ac­counts, and the donor will become a University Associate if the gift is unrestricted. '

Donors of $400 or more will be included In the Deans' Club wh~n they contribute at least $200 of their gift to CMU. The re­maining portion, if so desired, may be designated to any school, department, or specific project.

Donors of $1 ,000 or more a year will be asked to consider membership In the Presidents' Club.

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Athletic Century Club (gifts of $100 to $399 annually)

$100 Century Club Membership $200 Maroon Century Club Membership $300 Gold Century Club Membership

Donors who support the Central Michigan University Athletic Program through the Century Club have traditionally received special ticket privileges, seating section privileges, special parking privileges, may attend golf outings, football trips, baseball trips, pre-game luncheons, and after-game Ins­tant Replays. Century Club members will have their names (listed by giving levels) printed in all home football and basket­ball programs. All Century Club members will receive a wall certificate, window decal, and a Century Club Newsletter.

Deans' Club (gifts of $400 or more annually)

Donors who support the Central Michigan University Fund at this level receive full Century Club and First Nighters benefits. Deans' Club members must contribute at least $200 of their gift to the Development Fund as an unrestricted gift. The re­maining portion, if so desired, may be designated to any school, department or specific project . All Deans' Club members will have their names listed In the University's Development Fund Annual Report under the Dean's Club plus they will be listed as Deans' Club members in the Century Club Honor Roll in all home football and basketball programs. Deans' Club members will also be listed in the First Nlghters Honor Roll of Donors as Deans' Club Members.

University Associates (unrestricted gifts of $100 to $399 annually)

Donors who support the Central Michigan University Development Fund at this level with unrestricted gifts will have their names listed in the Development Fund's Annual Report. University Associates will also have the opportunity to attend all special Century Club and First Nlghters trips . Members will receive a wall certificate.

For further Information, contact: Dennis F. Vest, Executive Director for University Develop­ment, Central Michigan University, Phone [5171774-3744

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10 11 12 14 15 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 28 30 32 34 35 36 38 40 42 44 45 46 50 52 53

When eMU Has The Ball CENTRAL OFFENSE BGSU DEFENSE

Wayne Schwalbach TE 90 Tim Ross Bob Crowell LT 75 Jack Williams Tim Sopha LG 42 Joe Guyer Jeff Visner C 50 Jim Mltolo Mike Cvengros RG 49 Mike Callesen Chuck Harbin RT 77 Alex Prosak Brian Blank SE 47 Steve Seibert Mike Ball SB 5 Greg Kampe Ron Rummel OB 17 Joe Merritt Michael Gray UB 13 Craig Cheetwood Mose Rison TB 14 Dirk Abernathy

When BGSU Has The Ball CENTRAL DEFENSE BGSU OFFENSE

Kevin Collins DE 80 Tom Saleet Steve Small bone LT 79 Mike Obrovac Denny Starnes LB 54 Doug Smith Jerry Hodges MG 55 Joe Studer Bryan Gross LB 52 Kip Kane Bill White RT 88 Bob Harris Larry Hall DE 33 Dave Dudley Rick Waters MB 15 Mark Miller Vondell Robertson DB 23 Jeff Groth Carl Word DB 45 Dan Saleet Mike Ryan DB 41 John Park

eMU NAME POS. NO. NAME POS.

Rummel OB 54 Visner C Northup OB 55 Miller DE VanderZee OB 56 Vicari LB NO. NAME Hogeboom OB 57 Gross LB 1 Yocum Savich PK 58 Hollandsworth LB 2 Parker Terry SE 59 Starnes LB 4 Reed Schervish SB 60 Bullock OG 5 Kampe Ryan DB 63 Cvengros OG 6 D. Groth Taylor DB 65 Stephens DT Word DB 65 D. K. Brown OG

10 Endres

Jones SB 66 Sopha OG 11 Spengler

Annese DB 68 Voelz OG 12 Wright

Waters MB 69 Pearson OG 13 Cheetwood

Lewis MB 70 Moore OT 14 Abernathy

Kenny DB 71 Vierk OT 15 Miller

Ball SB 72 Cheesbro OT 16 Shipman

Jackson DB 73 Small bone DT 17 Merritt Robertson DB 74 Crowell OT 18 Baker Rison TB 76 Stiver DT 20 Sugden D, A. Brown SE 77 Harbin OT 21 Pillar Gray UB 78 Wollenzin OT 22 Cummins Neiderquill UB 80 Caper DT 23 J. Groth Young UB 81 Matson TE 24 Wiener Reeves UB 82 Blank SE 25 Shetler Sankovitch LB 83 Hall DE 27 Matthews Smith LB 84 LaFleur DE 32 Holovacs LeWis TB 85 Collins DE 33 Dudley Tucker TB 86 Parker TE Palmitier 87 Williams

34 Dunklin DB TE

McElrath MB 88 Schwalbach TE 35 Wlndatt

Kearns SB 91 White DT 37 Putman

Brown C 92 Saad MG 40 Hornus

Sh illito C 94 Maine DE 41 Park

Hodges MG 95 Sedlacek DT

PUNTERS DE RT CMU

LB 88 Wayne Schwalbach

MG 85 Kevin Collins LB LT BGSU DE 5 Greg Kampe CB 8 Doug Groth 55 CB FS

PLACEKICKERS TE RT CMU

RG 7 Rade Savich

C 4 Jeff VanderZee

LG LT BGSU SE 11 John Spengler OB 1 Robin Yocum FL FB TB

BGSU POS. NO. NAME POS.

K 42 Guyer DE TB 45 0 , Saleet FB SS 46 Fitzpatrick LB CB 47 Seibert DE OB 49 Cal lesen FB CB 50 Mitolo LB

K 51 Carpenter MG OB 52 Kane OG CB 54 Sm ith OG WS 55 Studer C OB 57 Beaber C OB 59 Prchlik DT DB 63 Valent ine MG FL 64 Wichman OT CB 65 Mazza OG WS 66 Harris OG SS 67 Hull OG FL 69 Underman LB TB 72 Achterhoff OT FL 75 Williams DT SE 77 Prosak DT FB 78 Clark OT SE 79 Obrovac OT TB 80 T, Saleet TE FB 84 Panczyk TE LB 86 Polhemus DT TB 90 Ross DE FB 94 Holmes MG

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Displaying 300 photographs of eMU athletes

Truly a must stop for the eMU Booster

Next to Shorts Stadium

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The game just ain't the same without a hot dog and coke!

CMU Food Service Concessions---we provide four main concession stands.

Beat the lines at the portable concessions stands.

MENU

* Koegel's (Hot Dogs) * Cold Sandwiches * Popcorn * Candy

* Coke and Coffee * Hot Chocolate * Giant Cookies * Chips

Before the game, during the game or anytime, we have lots of snacks to go along with the action on the field.

Look for our stands at many CMU home sporting events!

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~ Cheering The Chippewas •

MAKING THE MOUNTAIN - Central Michigan University's football cheerleaders construct a "mountain" formation In their preparations for supporting the Chippewas' Mld·American Con· ference title drive. This year's cheerleaders in· clude (bottom row, left to right) Becky Vlncek,

DOING THE SAILOR - Juniors Sharon Ket· cham and John Skalandis perform part of "The Sailor" formation, a familiar acrobatic maneuver by CMU's cheerleaders.

Terry Bushey, Nora Vanden Berge, Don Bickel, John Skalandls, Gregg Catalano, Julio Vasquez, Kim VanderVeer, Dana LeBlanc and Denise Bodnar; (second row, I·r) Cheryl Morse, Belinda Cain, Lisa Dobie, Mary Marlatt and Sharon Ket· cham; and (top) Carrie Sood.

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Phone 773-3588

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Touchdown or Field Goal

\ Illegally Passing or Handling Ball

Forward

Loss of Down

Illegal Shift

Ineligible Receiver Down Field on Pass

Code of Officials Signals ItlJJ.l

(/ ,;::/>--» )

,/ ;' , :'/~( Grasping

Helping the Runner, or Interlocked· Interference Ball Ready for Play Face Mask Delay of Game

Ball Dead; If Hand is Moved from Side

Roughing the Kicker to Side: Touchback

Incomplete Forward Pass, Penalty Declined, Touching a Forward

No Play, or No Score Pass or Scrimmage Kick Safety

Substitution Infractions

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Clipping

Illegal use of Player Disqualified Hands and Arms

Time out; eferee's Discretionary or Excess

Ball Illegally Touched, Time Out followed with Kicked, or Batted tapping hands on chest.

Illegal Procedure or Position

Illegal Motion

Forward Pass or Kick Catchi ng Interference

Non-contact Fouls

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Offside <Infraction Blocking Below of scrimmage or

the Waist free kick formation)

Personal Foul First Down

Start the Clock Intentional Grounding

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right next to the campus

All your travel arrangements Phone 772-0991

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Come in and see our selection of

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DAILY MENU Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

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Administering to the medical needs of Central's football squad and other athletes is an en· thusiastlc football sports medicine staff under the direction of athletic trainer Ken Kopke and team physician Dr. William Fishbaugh. The staff in·

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CMU Car Coaches Club

Car Coaches Club Continues Strong One of the major strides foward the University's

athletic program made during the 1976-77 school year probably wasn't apparent to many observers; but it certainly didn't go unnoticed or unap­preciated by members of coaching staff.

The establishment of the CMU Car Coaches Club made five late-model lease cars available to the coaches for recruiting visits_ These trips covered more than 56,000 miles at a considerable savings to the athletic program.

Five Mount Pleasant car dealers have united to comprise the club. Archey Brothers Oldsmobile, Hartman Motor Sales (Buick-Pontiac), Krapohl Ford Sales, M & M Chevrolet and Bob Perrigo Lincoln-Mercury each provides one car at a reduc­ed rental rate.

"These five dealers have very graciously en· trusted our athletic staff personnel with very valuable pieces of merchandise, and we're very appreciative of this," CMU athletic director Ted Kjolhede commented. "They have made It possi· ble for the coaches to stretch their recruiting dollars significantly."

This arrangement also enables Central to recruit equally with other major schools who have similar courtesy car arrangements. The cars will be available three months earlier this year, in­creasing the savings to the program.

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The Mid-American Conference Central Michigan Un iversity IS one of ten major M id­

western un iversit ies In Il l in oIs , Indiana, Ohio and Mi chigan who have united the ir academic endeavors and ath let ic energies In t he prest ig io us Mid-American Confe rence . Si ster Institu t ions Eastern M Ich Igan and Western M Ich Igan also be long Northern Illino Is and Ball State were ad ded In 1973 as the MAC expanded Into Ind iana and Ill inoIs . Ohio representa­tives Include Miami Univers ity , Kent State, Bowl in g Green, Toledo and charter member Ohio Un iversity. The Mid-Ameri­can Conference began In 1946 wit h five mem bers. The 1973-74 campa ign marked the first time ten schools had competed for any MAC title .

The conference headquarters is in Columbus, Ohio, in the Railroad Savings and Loan Building , 2000 West Henderson Road. Commissioner Fred Jacoby , who was appointed early in 1971, is assisted by Bill Linson and a secretarial staff.

Mid-American Conference members compete for cham­pIOnships In football , basketba ll, cross country, swimming, wrestling , golf, tennis , track and baseball. MAC teams compete In the National Collegiate AthletiC Association 's divIsion 1 championships, With the league champion auto­matically qual ifying for the NCAA's post-season basketball and baseball tournaments In football , the MAC often sends its top team to the Tangerine Bowl at Orlando, Fla . Within the conference , the Reese Trophy IS presented annually to the school With the most successful program In all sports . AcademiC excellence is also recognized With a presentation of a plaque to the top scholar-athlete at ea(;h of the ten Institutions . The MAC athletiC year IS climaxed With the annual Awards Banquet at the Springs Sports Champion ­ships each May.

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TH E MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE.

ILLINOIS

MICHIGAN

INDIANA

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All ten Mid-Am members are classified in Division I (or major college) for all nine conference sports . MAC schools award 119 grants-In-aid for men 's athletics--baseball and track, 8 each; basketball, 16; football, 75; golf and tennis , 2 each; swimming and wrestling , 4 each .

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T-Shirts Class Rings Mugs and Glassware

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by Marty Pul~ers

Innovation s come, innovations go. In footb alL the offense and the defense are cons t a ntly struggling to stay

ahead of the oth er halt's newest innova­tion . But, as in any endeavor, there are som e things that don't change much, som e classic tac tics that have the basic strength to adapt to almost any ploy the opposition can throw at them. One such classic is the zone defense, a collegiate pass defense of many years standing.

Next time you go to a game, pay some attention to the d efensive backfield, espe­cially if your goal is to appreciate football on a level deeper than most fans. Sure, football is great as simple drama, but it's also a cerebral tactical battle. Coaches watch this aspect of the game, and it will deepen yo ur understanding of the game too . This expa nded understanding is easy enough to acq uire, and there's no better place to begin your tutelage than with the zone defense.

The zone d efen se was devised to hinder that most tragic situation (to the defense, of course): the long pass completion. Yardage accumulated in such huge chunks just isn 't to be tolerated.

Awarded the job of preventing that kind of gro un d gaining are the defensive backs. And the tool they use to prevent completions is the zone-either a zone using two m en deep qr a zone using three men deep.

Let's begin th is explanation of the zone defense at its s implest. What,you may ask, does zone defense actually mean? Well, looking down fro m the stands you'll see the field divided in thirds, lengthwise, by short hash marks (hash marks are one yard apart an d help the referees spot the ball after each play!.

So, when a "three deep" zone is called for, all th"rs meant is a defensive back will drop back at th e snap of the ball and be responsible for pass coverage in his third of the field. "Three deep" coverage wilL as should be readily apparent, be a good de­terrent against the long pass, as there are th ree men instantly defending deep at the start of the p lay. To reiterate, zone cover­age means pass coverage comes first . Only after the offense has committed itself to the run can the defensive backs rush up toward the line.

There is also a " two deep" zone cover­cont'inued on 19t

17t